Best Super Bowl ever? Biggest coaching blunder ever? Whether you answer yes or no, this was a special night for American sports, and while you compile your list of "best this" and "worst that," don't forget to add NBC's coverage of the game to your "best" list. In the booth, Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth handled the twists and turns of this game about as well as anyone could have. They kept the 114.4 million people watching (the most-watched show in U.S. television history) informed without overstepping their bounds. However, when he needed to be, Collinsworth was all over the Malcolm Butler interception on the goal line that decided the...

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